Kuro no Maou

Me and Leki came back to the underground shelter on the first tier of the Great Labyrinth after successfully completing the buyout without the assault of the supposed gang.

All the essentials, including children's clothing, that couldn't be matched just by robbery from the hall, etc., are now ready to finally live more than a month of drawstring life. I mean, I flew out of that slave merchant ship, and then I finally got to a situation where people were comfortable.

No, that would be not only me, but Leki, Ursula, Cruz, the ten children as well. Something like the relief of finally grasping the peace between us is spreading among us, although we are still in a lurking state that does not allow us to be alarmed.

"I want to do a barbecue tournament, with all the hard work I've had"

Before my proclamation like that, the kids gathered in the basement shelter hall give me an indescribable pocan reaction.

Damn, I don't really grasp it.

"Uh, uh, in short, today we can all eat as much meat as we want"

"Ooh."

Although small, a slight twist occurs.

Before me, almost all the kids except Lillian have a frightened, alert look, but there's an honest part of it in their appetite.

This is all Ursula's wisdom in imitating the children as if they were fishing with rice.

"If the living environment is ready, the next thing we need to do is for everyone to accept Master Chrono."

That's what Ursula told me during the work we were doing fishing for the hall.

Until now, I had a pile of problems in front of me, so Locke couldn't even talk to the kids and I was being chased to deal with them.

But in living with us from now on, it won't be good for each other until we have room for it forever. I don't even want you to admire me like my brother, but I want you to recognize me as an ally who doesn't harm us.

If I was the cause of the stress that frightened the children myself, I would have crushed them first because of stress and self-blame.

With that kind of wax, I need to try to blend in with the kids as soon as possible.

It was this barbecue tournament that Ursula proposed as an opportunity to do so.

"Households are always critical out. So meat is rarely eaten, Dace."

It was in the midst of today's buyout that Leki told me about the painful eating situation. In the meantime, if you can eat meat full, they are pushing your heartbeat that everyone will definitely be happy.

I seem to be a rank five adventurer right now, a little rich. It is easy, such as buying meat that only fills the bellies of children.

Scattering should be avoided in good shape, but it is not mentally pleasing to be kettled. Anyway, as long as we can get out of Carla Mara, it's possible to make some grand money later, so now it's worth spending more money to be a little more comfortable than it is to be ketchy.

"Well, then, guys, don't hesitate to eat it"

Let's get this barbecue thing started.

The place is a school-like school building on the surface, its courtyard.

The school building was in the shape of a lo, a structure with a courtyard surrounded by walls on all sides. If we go out here, we'll never see us from the outside.

Besides, I want to give the kids a little more chance to go outside. Though safe, even adults can catch their breath when caged out in the basement like that.

In such a safe outdoor space called a courtyard, I was in a shadow space (shadowgate), and I thought I was using it as an adventurer, so I put out a grill, and I cooked everyone's meat.

It can be seen that it was assumed to be used by multiple people, including party members, of considerable size and quite superior quality. But it's almost like new and doesn't show much signs of being used.

I bought it fine, but was it a hassle to cook and finished with a preserved meal? Or were there other members who would cook for me?

I don't know what I'm talking about right now, but it's great for barbecues.

"-" Ignition (Fire Up) ""

Ursula magically ignites a charcoal-filled grill.

I was going to manually start the fire... but it's much quicker to magically light it. In terms of life, magic is convenient, but I was engaged in the task of fanning the charcoal that began to light the fire.

On the other hand, the kids are putting the meat that Leki and I bought into the skewer. Even when it comes to meat, we've got everything from birds, pigs, cows, and other animals with names we've never heard of.

Even kids would have more fun choosing for themselves, and I'm also interested in what purely monster meat tastes like. There shouldn't be anything worse than what I normally sold at the store.

"It's getting good fire, and it's time to bake -"

I raised my voice so full.

A moment of tension... because here the kids hand me the meat. One at a time, in order. In short, I'm going to introduce myself here.

I want to eat meat fast. But you're scared to come near me. Such a grid comes from the appearance of children stirring meat skewers in their hands.

One child finally walked out as the silence of an unspeakable sense of urgency flowed between me and the children - you decided to do it.

"... Dear Chrono, please"

"Oh, Lillian, leave it to me"

The first child to come under me was Lillian, who couldn't resist me.

Once again, she is a truly adorable toddler. Clear blonde hair, sparkling emerald eyes. Its adorable look is like a fairy... but hey, this kid seems to be lacking in facial changes.

I haven't seen this kid laugh yet. Maybe being caught by a slave merchant ship is traumatic. Because I wish I could heal the wounds in my heart at all.

With that in mind, he receives a skewer he grips with Lillian's little hands and puts it on the grill.

"By the way, let your child call you Master Chrono."

"Master Chrono is Master Chrono, Death?

"There's no other way to call it."

I was plainly curious, but there's no sign of Leki and Usurra giving in, so I guess I'll just have to leave it like this. No, but it's pretty good to have a kid call you after himself...

"Yeah, let the youngest Lillian cut ahead and put it down, and hesitate about what! I'm coming, go on, everybody!

With a strangely playful, energetic voice, my second child, following Lillian, finally came under me.

"What's your name?"

"My name is Vilheit!

When was my name? You're such a talkative kid.

"Maybe it comes from an ex-nominal or something like that?

"Not a single child of ours has such a secret setting"

"Sold by Kata of Debt, Ordinary Child Day"

Ville, it's a boy with toy monoculars on his red hair called. Parents seem to be merchants, and the whole family was sold to slave traders because their businesses failed in a grand way.

However, because he is the son of a merchant, education is quite good, and the only of the children is able to read letters and make simple calculations. Of the ten children, he said he was the oldest ten.

Ursula said it's clear brains and more dependable on the gold account than Leki and Cruz, but it's a bit weird characterized by the effects of the book you made me read, and so on.

"You'll wake up with two diseases at the age of ten, and hope for the future."

Following such a premature Mid-Second Awakener Ville, the second child also came.

"What's your name?"

"I'm Shamon. Nice to meet you, Master Chrono"

Now you've got a very polite kid. Poor girl with all her gray hair cut at her shoulders, but she came with me.

"This is how Shamon looks and he's a boy."

"The most solid, good boy, Death."

Was he a man... rather than having eyes for me, this kid is too beautiful. No one can spot a man in one shot.

Leki said he'd take good care of the kids, the kid you can count on, if you leave it to Shamon, it's all right, but don't rely too much. Sure, he's got a solid answer, but he's only nine.

And then, following Shamon, this time three people came at once.

"I'm Kyle! I'm starving. Cook the meat, Master Chrono!

How energetic a boy is to win an appetite and offer a skewer in his dignified hands. Is it crappy, twinkly pointy blonde, neat looking. He'll definitely look good in the future, but now he looks like a kid for the year. You're imitating Leki, or you're carrying a wooden sword or something on your back, which is quite a smile.

"He's the most hand-burning kid in Yancha Platter, he's a troubled kid"

"Kyle is definitely an amazing kid Death with sword talent!

However, the next time that wooden sword wields and injures another child or breaks things, Leki said it won't be over with a body blow. I don't think corporal punishment is very good...

"So, you two..."

"Halkia, sir."

"... Luola"

The two of them standing hidden on Kyle's back, blonde blue-eyed, just like him. Hulkia is the long-haired one who wanted to wave like Ursula, and Luola is the straight long one.

I thought it might be Kyle's sister.

"It looks like this. It's a boy."

"Sold from the same orphanage, Three Brothers Death"

No way, this is how it looks. It's the boys series, the second, the third. Three of the five men are this. How stunning are these kids?

Leki said three brothers, but technically he doesn't have a blood connection. All three were picked up as orphans, they've been close since orphanage, and they're still together after they were sold. Even if there is no blood connection, you can say essentially, siblings alike.

Now all the boys came under me... but I couldn't quite take a step to see if the girl still had a better fear.

"Look, if you stand forever, you can't eat meat. Master Krono is a kind man, so go with confidence."

And, as a result of Cruz's diligent negosion, one girl finally came in and out.

"What's your name?"

"Fiara."

For the sake of fear, Fiara answers really well. Light watery short hair, eyes glowing golden.

I tend to lay low. Its eyes are somewhere mysterious, and, like Lillian, they look remarkably neat. The future is a sign that she's going to be a witchy beauty called a witch or something.

"Fiara, you can't sleep yet!

"Have a proper meal and then go to bed."

Fiara, gudang as it depends on Leki, apparently has a better sleep appetite than an appetite. My eyelids dropped and I felt like I was just really sleepy.

He's not scared of me, he just doesn't want to move because he's sleepy... well, I'd rather think it's better than being extra scared. But she's so mypaced.

A third woman finally arrived after Fiara was seated in a chair that Leki had held and prepared.

"What's your name?"

"Sally, so-su"

Great reluctance, and so on to introduce myself.

But this Sally...... kinda similar, to Saliel.

Bright white skin and hair, eyes as bright as blood. I'm pretty sure it's the one called Albino.

However, the emotional expression seems to be abundant for Saliel, who already had an overwhelming sense of despair and emotionlessness pierced like a killing machine from that future.

The contents are not at all similar, but really, seeing a beautiful girl in an albino like this irritates my trauma... how about this girl, she may not be good at it.

"Sally, say hello to Master Chrono."

"It is..."

"No, that's okay, Ursula. From now on, we should just get along."

Yes, I'll have to blow off my own boring trauma and stuff and deal with this kid properly, too.

As I was so prepared, I was beginning to grill Sally's share of skewers, and finally the last two girls arrived.

It's Nell.

"… Berle, it is"

Bad for the two toddlers who are completely nervous and hardening themselves, but my gaze has been fixed on the heads of the two.

Its glossy hair is unmistakably black. She has the same dark hair as I do.

Most importantly, it is obvious that they are not Japanese because both eyes were not black and both were blue. The Japanese are away, too.

"Master Chrono, you two are still a little scared, but I want you to forgive me."

"I know, never mind"

It's shocking to be scared of a straight little girl, but it's not like she doesn't have experience with me. Not once or twice... anyway, because I don't care.

"Nell and Berle are true sisters, Death. We're always together, Death."

"Really?"

Unlike the three brothers, the two are real sisters. It was the story Ursula told me that they sold it all together from poor villages to mouth-watering.

I couldn't imagine it because I saw the modern streetscape of Carla Mara, but apparently the situation would be a normal world if it were not fruitful and would reduce food support.

In particular, the Kingdom of Ortencia, where they have been sold, is also the northernmost part of the Pandora continent, with harsh winters closed by wind and snow.

"There's a demand for slave traders."

Each for a different reason, and thus as many as ten children are enslaved. Besides, this is only a small part of it. I already know the truth about Carla Mara, who is said to have the most slaves, by helping her brothers before.

Not a wacko who doesn't know reality, but still, from me with modern Japanese values, it's not a very, but it's not a pleasant story.

"Hey, Ursula. It's no coincidence that all these kids are in good shape."

"Yeah, we were all supposed to be sold as luxury slaves."

It is a bad story of chest feces. But as a slave trader, it is natural commodity management and differentiation.

It can also be said that Leki and Ursula met them because they could only have the appearance of being considered luxury goods. Conversely, the other slaves who did not meet the two remained as they were without anything changing their destiny.

That's nothing, Leki and Ursula have no responsibility whatsoever. Who can tell you to help all the other slaves? In this other world, they have more than that strength, even me, because I protect only the children who are here now.

"... the earth that freed the slaves was amazing"

In the bend, the earth would have been advanced, just because the slave traders waved a major player and, naturally, human trafficking was not a rampant world. I have no desire to revolutionize the liberation of slaves with such superhuman power. Changing society, changing the world. I realized the difficulty was just magnificent and realistic.

"Sorry."

And, being imprisoned by negative thoughts, he was called out.

When I looked up, there stood a child I had not yet seen.

"Oh, uh, what's your name?"

"I'm Mia."

Dark hair, bright red eyes, girl, no boy. Because you're just a bunch of boys who see you wrong as a girl.

No, but if that's why she was actually a really boyish girl, I'm so sorry. Um, this is on hold.

"Come on, Master Chrono, bake more and more!

With a full grin, Mia pinched a skewer between her fingers, instead of her hands, and a total of eight sticking out at me. He's so fucked up.

"Beware of eating too much."

"It's okay. I'm confident in barbecue competitions."

And so on and so forth, he pressed the skewer to me, and Mia just left to the herd of children.

Mia, who had a peaceful conversation with me without any feelings, was a very brazen child.

"... Speaking of which, weren't there ten children?

Sure, I remember hearing "There's Ten" all the time.

"What are you talking about, Master Chrono? I've had eleven kids since the beginning."

"Am I?

"I know, Death. I don't even know how many Leki was once in a while, Mars."

Ursula's expression with no doubt whatsoever on Leki, who says it's obvious.

"Sorry, it seems like it was my mistake"

Anyway, I have to get these eleven kids out of Carla Mara safely.

While reaffirming my mission, I continued to cook meat.

Even though there are eleven of them, I still thought sweetly that they were just little kids...... etc. I already eat a lot + I'm usually hungry, because I eat these kids anyway.

"Exchange."

"Master Chrono, cook next."

From the burnt end, eat, eat, eat up.

And I bake, bake, bake, bake even the meat to be added.

Hey, you little grill, why didn't you buy a bigger one? It's me from the past. Not enough area to burn, not enough firepower. Add extra charcoal.

"Master Chrono, are you still...?

"Wait, I can bake it in a little while - here, don't take it raw!

Busy. Is this what a big family father looks like?

Each of the eleven children keeps moving as they please. If you're dealing with one, another child moves to poke that gap. Even with the support of Leki, Ursula, Cruz, and all three of them, this seems so... No, Leki has already lost the temptation of meat and is thorough to eat.

"Daddycool"

Saying something like that, take more and more baked skewers. Oh, that's the one I was secretly raising...

"Ahem."

"Thank you, Lillian's sweet."

Lillian, who stands right next to me and keeps looking at me baking meat, occasionally gives me a skewer to eat.

Ultimately, I don't know if Lillian is really showing me about me looking busy and feeding meat, or if it's funny like feeding animals, but this was the only supply line for me right now.

"Master Chrono, we don't have enough meat."

"Mia, you need to keep it down a little longer, please."

"Eh heh."

Don't laugh and delude me. I know you're the one who eats the most.

"This dish will be handed out from the little one in order."

"Yes."

With a plate full of roasted meat in both hands, Mia takes it, but there was already a skewer in its mouth.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

"Whoa, what's up!?

Shortly after Mia leaves, the child cries.

"When Ville and Kyle were fighting, Shamon got involved and cried out."

"There are other kids crying?

"If one cries out, the irrelevant child also cries out in a chain. Often."

Ursula says it's nothing, but I want it stopped early.

"Collar! Fighting is both a success and defeat day!

"Whoa, Leki sister - gu ha!

"Wait a minute, I'm not bad - Guru!

Leki, who jumped out, beat up two of the parties without question and was making them cry.

"Hey, the damage is spreading! Didn't you have a bad time dealing with Leki!?

It happens all the time.

Before the sight of the majority of the children crying out, I was very anxious to see if I could do better.